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Volume 14, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2046-6692
  • E-ISSN: 2046-6706

Abstract

Review of: , Katherine Anderson Howell (2025)

Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 232 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-60938-967-3, p/bk, USD 95

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